Dai Young’s Wasps team go into Sunday’s clash with Gloucester protecting a five-game winning sequence against the cherry and whites.

The visitors have only won on Wasps’ soil twice since 1990, although recent matches have produced some outstanding entertainment, with plenty of tries.

After last week’s disappointing display at Leicester’s Welford Road home, Wasps need a morale-boosting win, ideally accompanied by a bonus point. However, Gloucester have won two of their three matches to date, and fly half Ruaridh Jackson is fully aware of the challenge they present.

“Gloucester is going to be a tough game, they are a very strong side who will come hard at us defensively,” the Scottish international says.

“Looking at the analysis, Gloucester have been working hard on their defence, and they will come very aggressively at us. We have to find ways round that, and we already have a few plans in place.

“They have some quality players, in the likes of Hook, plus Sharples and May on the wings, so we need to make sure we contain their threat out wide.

“Recent games between the club have been high-scoring. We don’t know whether that will be the case this weekend, and don’t mind providing we get the win.”

Jackson and Alex Lozowski will both be in the frame for starting berths, depending on the fitness of full back Rob Miller, who missed last week’s match with a hamstring injury, and the outcome of Wasps’ appeal against Jimmy Gopperth’s three-week ban.

Scotland's Ruaridh Jackson

The former-Glasgow Warrior’s 25 Scottish caps have mostly come at fly half, but he started at full back last week, and is happy to fit in wherever required.

“Rob is looking fitter around the place this week, but I don’t know his exact status, and whether he will be fit for the weekend,” he says.

“We will have to wait and see what happens with Jimmy’s situation, but it does leave options for Alex and me to step in. He is chomping at the bit to be involved, and I am very keen to play too. We both see ourselves as No. 10’s first and foremost, with the ability to cover other positions,

Jackson also says that Wasps have been working hard to reduce their error-count since Sunday’s match, which saw them make 17 handling errors.

George Smith in action against Leicester Tigers

“We made a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes in attack, and put the ball on the ground far too often,” he says.

“With the quality we’ve got, we need to be finishing off more of the line breaks we’re making, and get over the whitewash a few more times.

“We have maybe been forcing things too much after we’ve made breaks, and tried to score straight away. With the guys we’ve got in the squad, if we can keep the ball through a few more phases, we will be walking it into the corners.

“A few of the mistakes have just been little concentration lapses, so we have been making sure we train at the same intensity level as the matches, so we don’t switch off, and are always on it.”